New Research: Conflict Test Battery for Studying the Act of Facing Threats in Pursuit of Rewards: Survival depends on the ability of animals to avoid threats and approach rewards. Traditionally, these two opposing motivational systems have… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #Neuroscience

Very excited to see this out in print! In this review, Twitterless Mario Penzo and I attempt to synthesize cutting-edge circuit dissections of CeA with high-level behavioral theory 🧵1/5 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Recording from entire rat mPFC on Restaurant Row finds evidence for 4 separate functional subregions (ACC, dorsal PL, ventral PL, IL). Dorsal (ACC, dPL) more involved in active decisions; ventral (vPL, IL) more involved in motivational components. Some really cool stuff!

El cerebro usa recuerdos para tomar decisiones de supervivencia Gaceta UNAM Sotres-Bayon Lab gaceta.unam.mx/?p=111649

Excited to share our new eLife paper on interactions between the PFC and BLA, showing how rostral and caudal BLA engage different circuits in the prelimbic and infralimbic PFC, all done by my amazing student Kasra Manoocheri: elifesciences.org/articles/82688

In a new theory of embodied consciousness, neuroscientists Antonio Damasio & Hanna Damasio propose that feelings are the source of consciousness. W/o them, consciousness is impossible–w/radical implications for the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness & ... AI iai.tv/articles/consc…

Very excited that The Four Realms of Existence received a great review from Publishers Weekly "feast for the mind"

Choice information in the rat orbitofrontal cortex (#OFC) is relayed to the dorsomedial #striatum (DMS) to lead accurate economic decision-making New from Karl Deisseroth and colleagues nature.com/articles/s4159…

Check out latest issue cell.com/neuron/current The cover illustrates de Araujo Salgado & coll.'s study examining the behaviors used by animals seeking food under predation threat. Artwork by Erina He NIH Medical Arts Paper is here: cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

I am thrilled to see my postdoctoral work finally published in Nature Neuroscience ! (free access here: rdcu.be/dpQhG). We used in vivo ephys and a new behavioral paradigm to elucidate what the PFC represents when mice face danger. These are the main findings of our work: 🧵

El hecho de que hasta para la ciencia sea un misterio qué es y cómo funciona el miedo nos resulta aterrador. 👻 Por eso, Sotres Bayón y su equipo del Fisiología Celular UNAM indagan la controlabilidad, para "no ser esclavos de nuestras respuestas reactivas al miedo". trib.al/EFBUu49

El cerebro emocional: Respuestas activas y pasivas ante el peligro - Dr.... youtu.be/4MayNKC7HPk?si… a través de YouTube

Online now in Neuron ! A tale of two neurotransmitters (glutamate and dopamine). We show how VTA glutamate projections to NAc paradoxically promote reward and aversion. What we found may surprise you! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to share my mbruchas lab work in Neuron. Holographic stimulation to manipulate amygdalar valence ensembles. With Stuber Lab, Charles Zhou, NAPE Center  (UW Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, UW Pharmacology). Funded by Murdock Trust, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), & NIDAnews. authors.elsevier.com/c/1iEjq3BtfH5N…

Counting down the days to go to #IBNS2024 to talk about avoidance behavior and neural circuits with Maria Diehl NeuroBoricuas Tv and Guillermo Aquino-Miranda 🤩

Ventral Pallidum and Amygdala Cooperate to Restrain Reward Approach from Overriding Defensive Behaviors biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Excited to share our latest preprint showing that ventral pallidum and amygdala cooperate to restrain risky reward choice behaviors during conflict 🧠😱😋🎌biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#JNeurosci: Findings from Hernández-Jaramillo et al. reveal the critical role of the pallidal-amygdalar connection in controlling cautious approach behaviors influenced by past experiences in rats. Sotres-Bayon Lab UNAM jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

🧠 Cerebro: un universo en nuestro interior Ya está disponible el décimo número de la revista UNAM Internacional, editada por la Dirección General de Cooperación e Internacionalización. Léela aquí 👉 revista.unaminternacional.unam.mx #UNAMInternacional #Cerebro #Investigación